Stagg High locked down twice for incidents involving firearms

STOCKTON - Two gun scares framed the school day for Stagg High School students on Thursday.

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By The Record

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By The Record

Posted Feb. 1, 2013 at 12:01 AM

By The Record

Posted Feb. 1, 2013 at 12:01 AM

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STOCKTON - Two gun scares framed the school day for Stagg High School students on Thursday.

Students sheltered in their first period classrooms from 8:15 a.m. until 9:45 a.m. while police searched the campus for weapons after a student reported seeing other students looking at a gun at a nearby convenience store.

"In an abundance of caution," officials locked down the high school at 8:15 a.m. while Stockton Unified police using dogs swept the campus, district spokeswoman Dianne Barth said. "No weapons were found, and all students are safe."

The school district thoroughly investigates any reports of weapons, she said.

Then, after school's 2:10 p.m. dismissal, gunfire off campus prompted a second lockdown at the school. At the time, there were a few hundred students on campus. They were there for after-school programs or came to campus for safety after hearing gunfire, Barth said.

Initial reports were that gunfire came from a car near the school. Stockton police were investigating, and no arrests had been made when officials lifted the lockdown at 3:15 p.m., Barth said. Their investigation focused on a levee along Brookside Road near the campus. Students often walk along the levee to and from school.

Two days earlier, Lincoln Unified School District trustees voted to add six security officers so there will be one at each elementary school.

Two weeks ago, Manteca police said they would be increasing patrols at elementary schools within its city limits.

Some of these plans were in the works before the Dec. 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., where 20 children and six school workers were gunned down by a lone man.